Roast duck with potatoes

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make roast duck? Prepare the necessary ingredients. You can use any duck meat. If there is a whole duck, then just cut it into portions and use the ones that you like the most. Not all stores can find individual parts of this bird (if you don't want to buy the whole duck), but I managed to get a couple of legs. They are quite suitable for a roast.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash and dry the duck legs. If desired, you can cut the ham into two parts - the thigh and the shin. I used whole hams.

3. Step 3:

   

   Season the meat with salt, pepper and sprinkle with Provencal herbs.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut the carrots into circles or quarters.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel and chop the potatoes coarsely. If the tubers are small, you can leave them whole.

7. Step 6:

   

   Peel the garlic. Large teeth can be cut in half lengthwise.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put potatoes and carrots in a deep thick-walled baking dish (or better in a duck house with a lid). Season the vegetables with salt and pepper. If desired, you can add an onion sliced into slices to the vegetables.

9. Step 8:

   

   Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the ham over high heat until golden brown. Duck, unlike chicken and turkey, is very fat and therefore in the process of cooking (frying, stewing, baking) releases a lot of fat.

10. Step 9:

    

    Spread the fried duck legs, garlic cloves and bay leaf on top.

11. Step 10:

    

    Pour so much water into the mold that it covers the vegetables completely. If desired, you can add fat from the frying pan in which the duck was fried, but the dish will turn out to be fat anyway. Cover the mold with a lid (if there is no lid, tighten the mold with foil) and put it in preheated to 200°From the oven for 50 minutes. To get a more fried and ruddy crust on the bird, open the foil and bake for about 10 minutes on the grill mode. Bon appetit!